Gourmet Food Supplier Novel - Chapter 353
Chapter 353: A New Method of Cooking the Pork
Translator: Xiong_Guoqi Editor: DesTheSloth
During the dinner time when customers sat together for their meal, Zhou Jia suddenly said to Yuan Zhou in a low voice.
“Boss Yuan, look at Manager Shi.” Zhou Jia privately pointed at Manager Shi who was seated in a corner.
“Um. Do you know the reason?” Yuan Zhou had already found that something went wrong with Manager Shi.
“No, I don’t. May I go to ask him?” Zhou Jia was a little worried.
“Um.” Yuan Zhou nodded his head.
Manager Shi was an established customer. After he arrived today, he didn’t say anything. Apart from that, he just sat there in a daze. There was even some stubble on his usually confident and clean face. The most unbelievable thing was that the business suit on him today was obviously the one he had worn yesterday and even had some wrinkles.
This was frankly quite impossible for it to happen to Manager Shi.
All the regular customers knew that Manager Shi was a tasteful man. He always wore costly business suits and changed clothes every day. According to him, the business suit was his armor while negotiating deals.
Of course, it needed to be cleaned from time to time.
Therefore, it was the first time that the customers had seen Manager Shi so slovenly.
Wu Hai uttered first ahead of Zhou Jia.
“Old Shi, what’s wrong with you? Were you kicked off the bed by your wife?” Wu Hai was really a tough guy while talking.
“No. She’s good.” Manager Shi remained dumbfounded for quite a while and then answered.
“Then you definitely have a bad appetite and want me to help you, right? No problem. It’s just a piece of cake.” Wu Hai looked at the Egg Fried Rice in front of him and said cleanly.
“What you care is all about eating, eating and eating. In my opinion, he’s going bankrupt.” Ling Hong took a look at Wu Hai sneeringly and said jokingly at the side.
“Manager Shi, are you ok?” Only then did Zhou Jia get the opportunity to say that.
“Ho Ho. You are right.”Surprised by the several people, Manager Shi wasn’t dumbfounded anymore. He simply admitted.
“Haw?” Ling Hong got surprised.
“It’s not true, isn’t it? Old Shi, you aren’t in the business of electronics. How could that be?” With a frown, Wu Hai stroked his small mustaches and said with puzzlement.
At that time, Yuan Zhou went to stand in front of them while Zhou Jia beside dared not say anything.
“Yes, I am. Electronics are really unpredictable. Now I’m bankrupt.” Manager Shi appeared to be smiling, but he was actually looking at Yuan Zhou with a sorrowful manner.
“You can still afford my dishes.” Yuan Zhou kept silent for quite a moment and suddenly said.
“Yes, but it’s the last time.” Manager Shi sighed, with depression in his tone.
“It’s not worth mentioning for an adult man. Work hard and create your business again.” Ling Hong disliked such an atmosphere most. Once he talked, he said that directly.
“Does a second-generation tycoon like you even know about that?” Wu Hai turned his head and stared at Ling Hong.
“Of course. In the business of electronics, you can make an unbelievably much money during good times. But once business becomes terrible, you will lose everything.” Ling Hong nodded his head and said immodestly.
“Exactly.” Manager Shi nodded his head.
Then, all of them became silent. He failed in his business and it seemed he had nothing left now. Under such situation, whatever others said meant nothing. Therefore, everyone ate their dishes quietly and paid close attention to Manager Shi beside them.
Yuan Zhou, nevertheless, returned to his kitchen and started to cook dishes. Only when he paused did he pay attention to him.
After about 10 minutes of quietness, Manager Shi suddenly stood up, “Boss Yuan, I will come every day rather than every two or three days in future after I make it.
The several words were said sonorously and firmly with powerful confidence. He just stared at Yuan Zhou like that as if to wait for his answer.
“Good.” Yuan Zhou set down his spatula and nodded his head earnestly.
Seeing that, Manager Shi began to laugh confidently. He then turned around and prepared to leave.
“But if you don’t eat your dishes up, you’ll be blacklisted automatically.” Just when Manager Shi turned around, Yuan Zhou continued to say.
“Eh…” Even if Manager Shi was a resolute man, he almost couldn’t control himself from beating Yuan Zhou to death at that moment.
“Please enjoy your meal.” Seeing Manager Shi turn around stiffly, Yuan Zhou said lightly.
“Ho Ho.”Manager Shi answered him with the two words. As for his expression, only Yuan Zhou himself could taste it.
After the conversation between Manager Shi and Yuan Zhou, the atmosphere became back to normal. Almost all the customers were ridiculing Yuan Zhou.
No one really knew what kind of psychological journey did Manager Shi experienced overnight which finally caused him to straighten out his thinking to start anew. Leave that aside, Yuan Zhou still got up very early on the next morning. He needed to prepare a new dish for lunch at noon. Therefore, he specifically served the Thousand Layered Mantou for breakfast.
The time needed for preparing the new dish was quite long. So right after the breakfast time, Yuan Zhou started to prepare the food.
“So it’s another kind of pork again this time?” With a mere glance, Yuan Zhou saw a new label pasted on that conspicuous small-sized ice-locker.
The system displayed, “Yes, it is.”
After a sound of “Hua”, Yuan Zhou pulled open the door of the ice-locker, where big pieces of streaky pork lay. Yuan Zhou took a pair of bamboo clippers and picked a piece of the pork up before placing it in the wooden barrel, ready to be used.
“I know you are a professional.” Wearing face mask, Yuan Zhou directly uttered to ridicule it.
Yuan Zhou had expected that the system would reply him to thank for his compliments. However, the system had no reaction at all.
“Peng”, Yuan Zhou set the wooden barrel on the azure stone countertop, took off the face mask, and approached the pork carefully to smell the flavor.
“It surprisingly carries a faint fruity taste. Well, and some wine fragrance?” Yuan Zhou put on the face mask and got a little puzzled.
As far as he knew, no pork had such a taste, let alone when he hadn’t cleaned it yet.
“System, what breed is the pig?” Ever since he opened the restaurant, Yuan Zhou had taken many lessons about the knowledge of the food ingredients. With his hard work, he believed that he knew better than the normal top chefs.
Of course, the contribution of the system cannot be left unrecognized. The color of the pork in front of him now was pretty while the fat and lean meat were evenly distributed. The pork skin also had a plump feeling of colloidal matter. Yuan Zhou couldn’t recognize at all what breed the pig was.
The system displayed, “This is the Mangalica. The full name is Lincolnshire Mangalica. The pig is also called the Sheep Pig.”
“The species has been extinct for 37 years. At the very beginning, the curly wool allows the Sheep Pig to resist cold and live through very cold winters. When it comes to summer, it can also protect it from the burning sun. It comes from Hungary and Austria. Previously, it was often frequently seen in Lincolnshire in Britain. Similar to sheep, it’s also suitable for shearing. The wool sheared could be used to make woolen sweaters.”
“System, the pig has already been studied by the geneticists, hasn’t it?” Yuan Zhou recalled a piece of news before and asked with puzzlement.
The system displayed, “The pig studied is actually the Linculista Pig, which contains a part of genes from the Mangalitza. It’s not the previous Mangalica. The meat texture and living habits are quite different.”
“So that’s why. The pork looks very delicious.” Yuan Zhou poked the pork skin with the bamboo chopsticks and said affirmatively.
While Yuan Zhou was observing the pork, the two foreign friends that came a long way from another country were just on their way to Yuan Zhou’s restaurant. However, there appeared very slight divergence between them on the way.
“I think it should be the neighboring restaurant of that tiny restaurant that serves more delicious dishes.” Jack pointed at the restaurant “Masterwork Nonsuch” marked on the map and said to Liu Hui earnestly.
Chapter 352: Automatically Fixing The Bug
Translator: Xiong_Guoqi Editor: DesTheSloth
“Young girl, can this machine recognize if it’s the original person?” A customer asked curiously.
“Yes. One can only use his own ID card to line up. Just as before, replacements are not allowed.” Zhou Jia explained mildly with a smile.
“That is way too advanced. Interesting.” The customer looked at the queuing machine curiously.
“But you don’t need to worry. This machine won’t record and keep the private information of the customers.” Zhou Jia said beforehand.
“That’s great.” The customers then became relieved.
After all, this machine only recorded the identification information and nothing else.
Advanced technologies ruled the world nowadays. With only an ID card, one really couldn’t do anything substantial. After all, people could no longer act on others’ behalf nowadays as everything had to be done by the person concerned himself.
About that, the customers were quite clear.
“Business time commences now. Everybody, now you can go inside and enjoy your meals. Those that waited behind, please start to line up for the ticket.” Zhou Jia checked the time and signaled smilingly.
Of the customers that went inside, a person asked Yuan Zhou directly. After all, this queuing machine was so miraculous.
“Boss Yuan, this machine looks so nice. So it can recognize automatically if it is the original person himself?” The customer revealed a curious expression.
“Um. A friend of mine sent it to me.” Yuan Zhou said indifferently.
“Can you get another one? I’m quite interested in it.” The customer asked with interest.
“I’m sorry, I can’t.” Yuan Zhou shook his head.
“Ok, forget it.” The customer shrugged, not intending to insist on that.
Customers that had obtained the numbered ticket stood together in twos and threes.
Some even walked out of the side street and prepared to come back after taking a walk around.
Now that the queuing machine was there and they had obtained the valid number and seats, they didn’t need to worry that they couldn’t manage to have their meals, although they were still unclear when they could eat it. Naturally, they wouldn’t line up there and waited to eat obediently.
After taking a walk outside, they could probably eat more dishes later. Therefore, basically every customer in the latter part of the line went to do so in the past few days.
Since there were so many people, there would definitely be chaos if they didn’t line up.
“Please come inside and have your meals according to your number.” Upon seeing a customer finish his meal and leave, yet realizing that no one had come in to take that seat, Zhou Jia uttered to remind them.
“Little girl, No. 126 is not here. I’m No. 127. Can I go inside first?” A man took his own number and asked affably.
“Sure. Come in, please.” Zhou Jia said with a smile.
“Gee? Are you not waiting for that person?” A customer asked with puzzlement.
“Business time is limited. If we wait for that person, it would be unfair to others. So everybody needs to pay attention to the time.” Zhou Jia had said that more than two times, hence she answered very deftly.
The matter of not waiting for anybody was reminded by Zhou Jia every time. Therefore, if anybody missed it, they missed it. They wouldn’t wait for anybody, nor would they give him the number again.
“The girl reminds us of the matter every day. What do they think I wait here with the number ticket for?” A customer said while pinching the number ticket in his hand.
“Exactly. If we continue to wait for him, God knows when we can eat the dishes.” Other customers instantly made it clear.
“I think so, too. I feel the numbers are getting lesser recently. Do you feel the same?” Another customer said that while taking the numbered ticket.
“Indeed. I remember there were more numbers at the same time yesterday. But today, it decreased by at least 5 numbers.” Customers paid much attention to that.
“But I have already checked the time. It’s still two hours. What’s the matter?” A customer felt slightly puzzled.
Others that heard him fell in silence. It was indeed true, but where exactly did the problem lay?
“It should be like this.” Man Man lifted up the number and started to say.
“Formerly when we are lining up, we’ll go to eat impatiently right after anybody comes out. But now, we cannot go inside until the girl comes out to call to us. The short walking distance was delayed by at least 1 minute. It’s not obvious, but if it accumulates, the time will be a lot.” Man Man was quite clever. She said that to a point.
“What she says seems to make sense.” Most of the customers agreed with a nod.
“But now that I got the number, I don’t want to stand here like a fool.” A man with spiky hair said frankly.
“Yes, me too. I don’t want to stand here like a fool since I have the number in my hand.” After that, more people echoed.
“Exactly. It’s too tiring.” Other customers nodded their head one after another.
“I think we can do this way. There are only 10 seats in the restaurant. When ten people go inside at a time, the other 10 people behind line up there. That way, when one finishes the meal and comes out, the following one can get inside immediately to reach the seamless convergence.” Man Man gesticulated for a while and said earnestly.
“The idea sounds great. Ten people move fairly quickly.” The idea received most consent from the customers.
“We have to think this way. If we don’t follow this way, we are actually wasting our own time.” Man Man continued to persuade them.
“If only Boss Yuan would increase his business hours.” A customer sighed.
“That damn Compass probably won’t change his rule.” Man Man gnashed her teeth and then said.
“Alright. Let’s do it like that. Everybody, please be strict with yourselves and save as much time as possible. Otherwise, whoever comes late in future wouldn’t have the opportunity to eat the meals.”
For their immediate interests, everybody paid much attention to that. If they can save time during the meals, they could also manage to eat when they came late next time. That was pretty good.
Sometimes, one really didn’t have so many thoughts while doing good deeds.
It wasn’t more complicated than hoping that somebody else could volunteer to help him out when he was in trouble.
Similarly, young people offered their seats to the old in the bus not for anything in return. They just wished that one day when their aged parents were in the crowded bus, others could also offer the seats to them.
While the customers were clearing up a problem by themselves unconsciously, the foreign friends were likewise on the way here at the other side.
“Hey, we finally arrive. I feel that my joints are already stiff.” Upon deplaning, Jack stretched himself eagerly.
“Aren’t you shameful to say that? What are you complaining for since you slept the whole way?” His friend was, on the contrary, quite dissatisfied.
“Bro, I’m doing this to remove heavy burdens from you.” Jack reached out his hand to hang on his friend’s neck before saying with a smile.
“Come on. Let’s go to the hotel quickly.” Seeing so many countrymen around, his friend was quite delighted.
“Hey. Liu, slow down. If I’m lost, you’ll have no brother anymore.” Jack said shamelessly.
“Please call me by my full name. Every time I hear you utter one word, I get goosebumps all over my body.” His friend, whom he called Liu, said firmly.
“Ok, ok. Liu Hui, let’s just go to that restaurant in the evening.” Jack clenched his fist and said decidedly.
“No, let’s go tomorrow. I’m too tired.” Liu Hui said firmly.
“Your physical condition is too bad.” Jack said with dislike.
“Then you can go alone.” Liu Hui said without any hesitation.
“Come on, don’t do that. Tomorrow is good. Let’s go there at noon tomorrow.” Jack indicated that he was quite self-conscious about the fact that he had no sense of direction.
“Let’s go.” Liu Hui reached out his hand and stopped a cab.
While the two people were preparing to go to Yuan Zhou’s restaurant for meals the next day, coincidentally Yuan Zhou was also preparing to serve another new dish that day. It was a dish that had been prepared for a long time.
